I know sometimes new steam era models or paint schemes are announced at Trainfest Anything this year? Brian J. Carlson

Mask Island Decals Inc. is pleased to announce the release of the Rock Island Pulp Wood car kit, (wood Rack). The kit contains body, deck, trucks, no wheels, grab irons and under frame parts, and

It can go the other way, too. In 1937 when the Soo Line gave up owning their reefers and began leasing from URTX, they rebuilt the newest reefers, Haskell & Barker, 1921, into flatcars, adding channel

Do we know what period/era 40 feet was considered a standard car length for measuring or describing side and yard tracks? That kind of implies 36-38-foot-long cars or a mix of longer box and gondola

Neither gons nor boxcars, but similar idea: the CPR converted 260 flat cars to auto-boxcars of the 296000-296102 and 296103 -- 296259 series; - re-building in July 1916 - February 1918, with IH: 9'

Hi Eric and List Members, Thank you Eric for the very interesting link. Whata wonderful model scene that MEC unloading operation would make! I notice the page has a line that reads "Bancroft&

Eric Hansmann asks, Well, not a gon-to-box conversion but similar: in 1929, the B&M rebuilt 100 steel gondolas into their 29000 series pulp racks with two side doors. I have a bit of a writeup on

SAL rebuild 100 former composite gone into auto cars, the A class (first 50) and the A-1 class, (second 50) in 1936 and 1937. I have an ICC report the composite tons that says by 1940 that they

OK, more confusion. One of the guys here sent me a nice photo of one of the LNE composite boxcars. Photo was taken in early 1950's from the autos in the background. Has an interesting round roof.

Hi List Members, I'm cleaning out some stuffI no longer need. I have the following data pack... the topic isweathering - covers flat car decks, but also for other freight cars andsteam locos. Some

Oops. I just re-read Bob Witt’s noteson the SAL automobile cars built from gondolas. Those seem to be a DepressionEra project. But the LNE, WM, and W&LE conversions were not. Eric

Hi Folks, I’m looking for an article that may have been published in the Missouri Pacific Historical Society magazine “The Eagle”. Does anyone know of an index that I may

In the W&LE and WM cases, I suspect therailroads were assessing their fleets and realizing the steel hoppers offeredmore efficient service and a better return on their investment. Their compositewood

That is a beefy end sill on that car! Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] Sent: Friday, November 10, 201711:12 AM To: STMFC@... Subject: [STMFC] Re: LNE

Dennis captured the gist of it, but here are a few more details concerning the shell and dome volumes both being listed in the tariffs. 1. Starting in 1917, all new general purpose tank cars

I found this example about a year ago: The drawing is for a SAL class A-1 automobile box cars SAL 9011-9035 (1936) and SAL 9036-9060 (1937). I am intrigued by the note that these box cars were built

Add one more: the W&LE converted 400 wood gondolas in their 43000-43999 and 44000-44999 series into all-wood, double sheathed boxcars in the 22000-22399 series between 1917 and 1918. There were still

This is interesting as another regional railroadwas also converting older gondolas to box cars in the mid-1920s, too. The Western Marylandbegan converting fishbelly center sill, composite

---In STMFC@..., <frograbbit602@...> wrote : I purchased and received in the mail the book titled Tank Car Capacities Tariff, Freight Tariff 300-H, from 1955, showing capacities of tank cars. The

I purchased and received in the mail the book titled Tank Car Capacities Tariff, Freight Tariff 300-H, from 1955, showing capacities of tank cars. The book was digitized by Ian Cranston and